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find specified directory and delete it recursively including directories with spaces
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find . -name "directory_name" -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -i rm -rf {}

damage · 2011-08-16 15:50:39 3
Search recursively to find a word in certain file types

-sl : show just file names
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find . -iname '*.conf' | xargs grep "searh string" -sl

mesuutt · 2011-08-26 14:58:51 3
Grep all your PDFs in a row

http://pdfgrep.sourceforge.net/
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find -iname \*.pdf -print0 | xargs -0 pdfgrep -i "my search text"

vlf · 2011-09-05 15:31:35 3
Edit all different files from 2 directories with gvim in difference mode (gvim -d)

LC_ALL=C is here to always grep on "differ" whatever your language env. xargs -n 2 to run gvim -d with 2 arguments gvim --nofork to use only one instance of gvim
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LC_ALL=C diff -q dir1 dir2 | grep differ | awk '{ print $2, $4 }' | xargs -n 2 gvim --nofork -d

brock · 2011-09-06 11:50:33 3
Mark manually deleted files as deleted in svn

Helps if you accidentally deleted files from an svn repo with plain rm and you would like to mark them for svn to delete too.
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svn status|grep -iR '^!'|sed 's/!/ /g'|xargs -i svn rm '{}'

erdeszt · 2011-10-06 08:11:25 5

un-unzip a file

Sometimes you unzip a file that has no root folder and it spews files all over the place. This will clean up all of those files by deleting them. Show Sample Output

unzip -l filename.zip |awk '{ if($4 != "Name" && $4 != "----") print $4}'|xargs -t rm -rf {}

hk0i · 2011-10-20 18:54:15 6

Get status of LXC

This short snippet outputs the state of all containers available on your system. It is quite helpful to see which ones are running and which are stopped. Please notice that the "sort -u" is needed, otherwise running containers will be reported twice (see output of "lxc-ls" on its own for why) Show Sample Output
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```
'lenny-pkg' is STOPPED
'lenny-www' is RUNNING
'squeeze-partial-pkg' is STOPPED
'squeeze-pkg' is RUNNING
```
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lxc-ls | sort -u | xargs -i sudo lxc-info -n {}

Rhonda · 2011-10-28 11:10:02 5
find something
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find $SDIR -name '${f}.*' -mtime +$n -maxdepth 1 | xargs -n 10 rm -vf

seker4869 · 2011-11-01 05:35:03 3
delete the files from the given directory except the PDF file
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ls -1 $PATH*/* | xargs file | awk -F":" '!($2~/PDF document/){print $1}' |xargs rm -rf

karuppasamy · 2011-11-02 04:42:32 3
Counting the source code's line numbers C/C++ Java
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find /usr/include/ -name '*.[c|h]pp' -o -name '*.[ch]' -print0 | xargs -0 wc -l | tail -1

f4m8 · 2011-12-02 07:20:09 4
Converts Character Set of Files in a Folder
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find . -iregex ".+\.$c\|cpp\|h$" | xargs -I{} perl -e "system(\"iconv -f SHIFT_JIS -t UTF-8 {} > temp; mv temp {} \");" ;

inomas · 2011-12-02 18:03:27 3
Convert Hex to String
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echo 474e552773204e6f7420556e697821 | sed -e 's/$.\{2\}$/\\\\x\1/g' | xargs echo -e

jcubic · 2012-01-14 10:26:29 540
Unmount all mounted SAMBA/Windows shares

This is a handy command to put into ~/.bash_logout to automatically un-mount windows shares whenever the user logs out. If you use this on as a non-root account then you'll need to append sudo before umount and the user will need to have the appropriate sudoer rights to run the /bin/umount command.
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mount|grep -e '//'|cut -d ' ' -f3| xargs -I {} umount {}

thund3rstruck · 2012-01-17 01:20:09 4
Kill processes associated with PATTERN

Kill all process that concide whit PATTERN Show Sample Output
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```
kill 28310: No such process
```
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ps -fea | grep PATTERN | awk {'print $2'} | xargs kill -9

luiscachog · 2012-01-27 20:31:36 3
Push to all remote repos with git
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git remote | xargs -n 1 git push

rickard2 · 2012-02-11 17:41:52 3
Report summary of string occurrence by time period (hour) - alternate

useful to count events in logs @see: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10327/report-summary-of-string-occurrence-by-time-period-hour#comment Show Sample Output
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```
2012-02-24 08 28
2012-02-24 09 122
2012-02-24 10 110
2012-02-24 11 95
```
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cat z.log | cut -d ':' -f1 | sort | uniq | xargs -l1 -iFF echo 'echo FF $(cat z.log | grep -e "^FF" | grep -e Timeout | wc -l )' | bash

hute37 · 2012-02-28 17:25:14 3
Find the mounted storages
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sudo find . -name "syslog*.gz" -type f | xargs gzip -cd | grep "Mounted"

alamati · 2012-02-29 06:24:27 4
Across an entire subtree, list not-empty directories that have no child-directories, globally sorted by their respective mtime

This let me find some a set of modifications that were made to a rather large tree of files, where the file-names themselves were not unique (actually: insanely redundant and useless. "1.dat 2.dat ..."). Pruning down to last-branch brough things back to the "project-name" scope, and it's then easy to see which branches of the tree have recently changed, or any other similar search. Ideally, it should sort the directories by the mtime of the most recent *file* *inside* the directory, but that's probably outside the scope of a (sane...) command line.
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ls -ltr --directory $(find . -regex "./.*[^/]*\'" -type f | xargs -n 1 dirname | sort | uniq)

pdkl95 · 2012-03-02 03:48:47 3
kill an arbitrary process running on an Android device attached via USB debug cable

This is great when you need to reboot the system-server, or your own daemon that has gone crazy
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adb shell ps | grep <process name> | awk '{print $2}' | xargs adb shell kill

riansanderson · 2012-03-03 01:03:39 3
find *.lock files and delete

This command removes *.lock or files from a folder.
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find -name *.lock |xargs rm -f

mpax · 2012-03-07 04:48:03 3
Marks all manually installed deb packages as automatically installed.

Marks all manually installed deb packages as automatically installed. Usefull to combine with apt-get install <all manually packages that we want> to have a clean installed debian-based system.
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aptitude -F "%p" search \!~M~i~T | xargs apt-mark markauto

gspadari · 2012-03-09 13:44:00 7
Get the total length of all video / audio in the current dir (and below) in H:m:s

Improvement on Coderjoe's Solution. Gets rid of grep and cut (and implements them in awk) and specifies some different mplayer options that speed things up a bit. Show Sample Output
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```
02:23:58
```
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find /path/to/dir -iname "*.ext" -print0 | xargs -0 mplayer -really-quiet -cache 64 -vo dummy -ao dummy -identify 2>/dev/null | awk '/ID_LENGTH/{gsub(/ID_LENGTH=/,"")}{SUM += $1}END{ printf "%02d:%02d:%02d\n",SUM/3600,SUM%3600/60,SUM%60}'

DarkSniper · 2012-03-11 12:28:48 3
Find Files Which Should Be Executable But Are Not

Helps to fix permissions when a user clobbers them in their home directory or elsewhere. Does not rely on file extension, but uses the `file` command for context.
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find . -type f ! -perm /u+x -printf "\"%p\"\n" | xargs file | grep -i executable

aaronjcopley · 2012-03-12 17:29:36 3
Filter Android log output by PID
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adb shell ps | grep my.app.packagename | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -I ? sh -c "adb logcat -v time | grep ?"

jackpatmos · 2012-03-14 10:02:11 5
chmod only files

This command finds all files in a folder recursively and sets owner and group to read and write. Leaves all dirs intact. This command does takes care of file names with spaces as well.
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find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod -v gu=rw

Tobbera · 2012-03-22 03:08:53 4
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Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server

Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

Remove trailing space in vi

Redirect tar extract to another directory

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Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

Remove comments and empty lines from a conf file

Some conf file are very long (squid.conf) This command help to read it.

Sharing file through http 80 port

From the other machine open a web navigator and go to ip from the machine who launch netcat, http://ip-address/ If you have some web server listening at 80 port then you would need stop them or select another port before launch net cat ;-) * You need netcat tool installed

Plowshare, download files from cyberlocker like rapidshare megaupload ...etc

you need to have plowshare installed http://code.google.com/p/plowshare/ plowshare supports Megaupload, Rapidshare, 2Shared, 4Shared, ZShare, Badongo, Divshare.com, Depositfiles, Netload.in, Sendspace, Usershare, x7.to and some others file sharing services.

Pause Current Thread

Hold ctrl and press z to pause the current thread. Run $fg to resume it.

Outputs a sorted list of disk usage to a text file

Recursively searches current directory and outputs sorted list of each directory's disk usage to a text file.

Bash alias to output the current Swatch Internet Time

Output the current time in Swatch “Internet Time”, aka .beats. There are 1000 .beats in a day, and @0 is at 00:00 Central European Standard Time. This was briefly a thing in the late 1990s. More details: https://2020.swatch.com/en_ca/internet-time/ The alias is rather quote heavy to protect the subshell, so the bare command is: $ echo '@'$(TZ=GMT-1 date +'(%-S + %-M * 60 + %-H * 3600) / 86.4'|bc)

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